‘Govern home-share under new laws’

Home away: Ahmad (left) and Ch’ng with a folder of rules and regulations at a home-share property in Penang.

GEORGE TOWN: Amidst calls by hotels that the Government regulates homestay services, home-sharing hosts themselves want to be legally recognised as a “new-age” form of accommodation providers.

But they refuse to be governed by laws that regulate hotels and want new laws and licensing for home sharing.